Practice on Reading: 2024

Practice on Reading

 

Do you like reading? To enhance your reading skills, take this passage reading quiz, and answer the questions. When it comes to reading, the reader is said to be efficient only with the constant practice of reading. If you wish to practice reading or improve your reading skills, you can choose anything to read, whether it is a newspaper, journal, book, or e-book. With more practice, you are a perfectionist. You can consider this quiz to be a part of your reading practice. All the best! Ben Franklin first attained popular success through his writings in his brother's newspaper, the New England Current. In these articles, he used a simple style of language and common sense argumentation to defend the point of view of the farmer and the Leather Apron man. He continued with the same common-sense practicality and appealed to the common man with his work on Poor Richard's Almanac from 1733 until 1758. Firmly established in his popular acceptance by the people, Franklin wrote a variety of extremely effective articles and pamphlets about the colonist's revolutionary cause against England. The pronoun "he" in bold refers to...

• A. 

Thomas Paine

• B. 

Ben Franklin

• C. 

Ben Franklin's brother

• D. 

Poor Richard

• 13. 

The expression "point of view" could best be replaced by

• A. 

Perspective

• B. 

Sight

• C. 

Circumstance

• D. 

Trait

• 14. 

The main point of this passage is that...   Carbon tetrachloride is a colourless and inflammable liquid that can be produced by combining carbon disulfide and chlorine. This compound is widely used in industry today because of its effectiveness as a solvent as well as its use in the production of propellants.   Despite its widespread use in industry, carbon tetrachloride has been banned for home use. In the past, carbon tetrachloride was a common ingredient in cleaning compounds that were used throughout the home, but it was found to be dangerous: when heated, it changes into a poisonous gas that can cause severe illness and even death if it is inhaled. Because of this dangerous characteristic, the United States revoked permission for the home use of carbon tetrachloride in 1970. The United States has taken similar action with various other chemical compounds.

• A. 

Carbon tetrachloride can be very dangerous when it is heated.

• B. 

The government banned carbon tetrachloride in 1970

• C. 

Although carbon tetrachloride can legally be used in industry, it is not allowed in-home products.

• D. 

Carbon tetrachloride used to be a regular part of cleaning compounds

• 15. 

The paragraph preceding this passage most likely discusses... Whereas literature in the first half of the eighteenth century in America had been largely religious and moral in tone, by the latter half of the century, the revolutionary fervor that was coming to life in the colonies began to be reflected in the literature of the time, which in turn served to further influence the population. Although not all writers of this period supported the Revolution, the two best-known and most influential writers, Ben Franklin and Thomas Paine, strongly supported that cause. Ben Franklin first attained popular success through his writings in his brother's newspaper, the New England Current. In these articles, he used a simple style of language and common sense argumentation to defend the point of view of the farmer and the Leather Apron man. He continued with the same common-sense practicality and appealed to the common man with his work on Poor Richard's Almanac from 1733 until 1758. Firmly established in his popular acceptance by the people, Franklin wrote a variety of extremely effective articles and pamphlets about the colonist's revolutionary cause against England. Thomas Paine was an Englishman working as a magazine editor in Philadelphia at the time of the Revolution. His pamphlet Common Sense, which appeared in 1776, was a force in encouraging the colonists to declare their independence from England. Then throughout the long and desperate war years, he published a series of Crisis papers (from 1776 until 1783) to encourage the colonists to continue with the struggle. The effectiveness of his writing was probably due to his emotional yet oversimplified depiction of the cause of the colonists against England as a classic struggle between good and evil.

• A. 

How does literature influence the population?

• B. 

Religious and moral literature

• C. 

Literature supporting the cause of the American Revolution

• D. 

What made Thomas Paine's literature successful

• 16. 

According to the passage, the tone of Poor Richard's Almanac is...

• A. 

Pragmatic

• B. 

Erudite

• C. 

Theoretical

• D. 

Scholarly

• 17. 

The word "desperate" could best be replaced by

• A. 

Unending

• B. 

Hopeless

• C. 

Strategic

• D. 

Combative

• 18. 

Where in the passage does the author describe Thomas Paine's style of writing?

• A. 

Lines 4-6

• B. 

Lines 8-9

• C. 

Lines 14-15

• D. 

Lines 18-20

• 19. 

The purpose of the passage is to...

• A. 

Discuss American literature in the first half of the eighteen century.

• B. 

Give biographical data on two American writers.

• C. 

Describe the literary influence during revolutionary America.

• D. 

Explain which authors supported the Revolution.

• 20. 

Which of the following is the best title for this passage? The locations of stars in the sky relative to one another do not appear to the naked eye to change, and as a result, stars are often considered to be fixed in position. Many unaware stargazers falsely assume that each star has its own permanent home in the nighttime sky. In reality, though, stars are always moving, but because of the tremendous distances between stars themselves and from stars to Earth, the changes are barely perceptible here. An example of a rather fast-moving star demonstrates why this misconception prevails; it takes approximately 200 years for a relatively rapid star-like Bernard's star to move a distance in the skies equal to the diameter of the Earth's moon. When the apparently negligible movement of the stars is contrasted with the movement of the planets, the stars are seemingly unmoving.

• A. 

What the eye can see in the sky

• B. 

Bernard's star

• C. 

Planetary Movement

• D. 

The Ever-moving stars

• 21. 

The expression‍ "naked eye" most probably refers to...

• A. 

A telescope

• B. 

A scientific method for observing stars

• C. 

Unassisted vision

• D. 

A camera with a powerful lens

• 22. 

According to the passage, the distances between the stars and Earth are...

• A. 

Barely perceptible

• B. 

Huge

• C. 

Fixed

• D. 

Moderate

• 23. 

The word "perceptible" is closest in meaning to which of the following?

• A. 

Noticeable

• B. 

Persuasive

• C. 

Conceivable

• D. 

Astonishing

• 24. 

A "misconception" is closest in meaning to a (n)

• A. 

idea

• B. 

Proven fact

• C. 

Erroneous belief

• D. 

Theory

• 25. 

The passage states that in 200 years, Bernard's star can move...

• A. 

Around Earth's moon

• B. 

Next to the earth's moon

• C. 

A distance equal to the distance from the earth to the moon

• D. 

A distance seemingly equal to the diameter of the moon